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Saturday, 21 February 2015

Position of Friendship with Disbelievers as a Muslim

Lesson # 631 From Holy Qur’aan

Position of
Friendship with Disbelievers as a Muslim

‘Al-Maaa-‘idah (the
Table Spread) – Chapter – 5)–Stage
- 2

Verse
– 51 of 120, Section – 8 of 16 (Part - 6)

BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim

In the name of Allaah,
the Beneficent, the Merciful

Lesson - B

In the beginning of Islam, when it
was coming into existence in its original color in front of the people of the
world, different nations which were dwelling in the Arab, went all of them against
It. The only reason of their enmity was that Islam desired to make and keep the
entire human beings equal brothers of one another. But those people had formed
a habit that they would have to keep themselves in power and all other people
should live under their control, because every group and nation wished its own
greatness. So they had all evils into them like quarrels, evil-living, beating and
looting one another, and they were happy in this condition. Islam wanted to
establish the way of peace, safety and wellbeing, and tried to bar them from those
miserable affairs. They had comprehended that if it would be so, then there will
be no chance for anyone of them to set up their chief-ship in future. Therefore,
they all were drawn up in a battle array to abolish Islam and could not
understand that by doing so, they were preparing field for choking one another
forever.

The Muslims have been acquainted
with this danger in the verse, we recited in the previous lesson that the Jews
and the Christians have been involved as such in the selfishness, as other
disbelievers. It was told in Surah ‘Aali-
‘Imraan openly, “Let not the believers take disbelievers for their friends
in preference to believers”, they are selfish, and the selfish person cannot be
a friend of anyone. Because the Jews and the Christians are also like them, so
it has been declared here that hope of friendship with them is useless. A well-wisher
for himself only and a well-wisher for the entire humanity cannot be friends
and well-wishers of each other.

It has been described, O Muslims!
You should not seek the friendship of the Jews and the Christians. They have bent
upon casual friendship between themselves mutually and with other infidels. They
cannot be your friends, this mutual friendship of theirs and association with
the infidels is until their selfishness permits them. You should not be their
comrades, because whosoever will be their friend and associate, will become
like them. The reason is that you are morally at a higher surface than them,
because you are well-wishers for all, and they are in a lower field than yours
because their slogan is selfishness, and it is clear that to let someone fall
from height to down is easier than lifting someone from depth to height. Therefore,
if you met them cordially, they will cause to fail you easily and make you
selfish, and you will not be able to elevate and make them well-wishers equally
for all. So, understand! If anyone of you took them for friend, would become like
them.

Then it has been commanded, “Think
not that you will make them as you are by meeting them, because Allaah Almighty does not guide the
tyrants towards the Straight Path. They are cruel because they see nothing
except their own gain, and it is the main cause of quarrel in the world, if everybody
keeps own advantage in front and suppress others for it. It is called tyranny”.

The world knows now a day that
these people are ready to ruin the world to keep their affairs up and they are
happy because of having Atom Bombs etc. They are glad that none can rebel
against them. It is ‘the End’ of the selfishness and it has reached this limit due
to the only reason that the Muslims have also been entangled in the paw of
selfishness. Now they are looking also towards them for getting worldly gains being
helpless, from whom they were warned to be careful.